Events

Fall 2012 Distinguished Speaker SeriesGordon Program

On November 1st, our Distinguished Speaker will be Josh Simons, HPC Architect, Office of the CTO, VMware. Current Gordon Fellow Candidates are invited to attend.

Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012Time: 7:00-8:00 pmRoom: 431 Stearns

With over 20 years of experience in High Performance Computing, Josh currently leads an effort at VMware to bring the value of virtualization to HPC. Previously, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems with broad responsibilities for HPC direction and strategy. He joined Sun in 1996 from Thinking Machines Corporation, a pioneering company in the area of Massively Parallel Processors (MPPs), where he held a variety of technical positions. Josh has worked on developer tools for distributed parallel computing, including language and compiler design, scalable parallel debugger design and development, and MPI. He has also worked in the areas of 3D graphics, image processing, and real-time device control. Josh has an undergraduate degree in Engineering from Harvard College and a Masters in Computer Science from Harvard University. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of OpenMP since 2002 and is currently serving as Chairman of the Board.